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...That's the pact that 14 English children unknowingly signed in the fall of 1963 when Michael Apted and Gordon McDougall, two researchers for the Granada TV public affairs show World in Action, selected them to appear in a 40-min. documentary called Seven Up!, directed by Paul Almond. The kids were chosen to represent English classes and regions: Jackie, Lynn and Sue from a London council estate, John, Andrew and Charles from a Kensington boarding school, Paul and Simon (originally spelled Symon) from a charity home, Neil and Peter from a Liverpool suburb, Suzy from a titled family, Nicholas...
...North Philadelphia, the general outline of the current uproar over Asian Americans and college admissions, she became angry, lifted her voice, and said “This is ridiculous! ‘Over-represented?’ My kids’ parents can’t even speak English! [The kids] work for five or six hours each night in their parents’ stores, and still manage to get all of their homework done by the next day. Without fail. They work harder than anyone...
What conceivable sort of advantage is provided by having non-English speaking parents who work at least 12 hours a day in menial labor? Clearly such people face some economic barriers and racial discrimination, so why is their treatment not worthy of redress? Is there some sort of “racism scale” on which the difficulties faced by Asians are smaller than those faced by either Hispanics or blacks? If so, who makes such a scale and, more importantly, who is doing the weighing...
...different films all speak about how we, we all, can live together. I am interested in the human condition. The different topics are almost pretext to speak about that, to observe human beings.” And cinema itself? He could only express its essence in a mix of English and his native tongue: “For me, cinema is this: things we see, things we don’t see, the visible, the invisible, transparency and opacity…Voil?...
SVEN BIRKERTS, Briggs Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language...